Something unusual is happening across large swaths of the world. Maternity wards are quieter than they’ve ever been. Villages ...

Right now, human population growth is doing something long thought impossible—it's wavering. It's now possible global population could peak much earlier than expected, topping 10 billion in the 2060s.

New York, 11 July –According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is expected that the world’s population will peak in the mid-2080s, growing over the next ...

As India’s fertility rate drops below replacement level, Population Foundation of India's Poonam Muttreja explains why the ...

If there’s one single consistent advantage the United States has carried since its founding, it is its ability to draw talent and expand its population. Now, as the country prepares to celebrate its ...

Across the world, governments adopted population-trimming policies, from massively subsidized birth control to promoting two-worker households to China's draconian "one child" policy. Getty Images See ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Births in South Korea jumped 8.7 percent in April, the fastest monthly ...

The Asian American population has reached a record high of 24.8 million, more than doubling since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Asian Americans now make ...

In celebration of World Population Day, I asked ChatGPT to help me grasp the enormity of the world’s 8 billion people—its ...